Say howdy to our friend Roberto Ainslie. He’s one of Casey’s childhood friends, and someone we’ve all spent a lot of time with in the last couple of years. A little known fact is that before our old studio was transformed in to PUBLIC SCHOOL, it was a gallery called Gallery 1906, which Roberto curated. He hosted many great shows including Matt Rainwater’s Untitled Bat Study and the work of Christa Palazzolo. Though he shut the gallery down to focus on teaching, he has come full circle and is going back to grad school for curatorial studies.
Recently along with Jessica Olsen, we enlisted his curating help on the PUBLIC SCHOOL blog. Additionally, to satisfy his art habit, Roberto started the Tokyo Blues blog which you should check out.
Though this is the side of Roberto that most of you will encounter through the blog, its his overall personality that we dig. He’s sort of an unofficial PSchooler as you can generally find him upstairs at our studio throughout the week. He comes up to hang in the lounge and dole out advice on the random happenings of the studio or discussing why Tim Tebow should have gone higher lower in the NFL draft. He’s one of our favorite visitors and all around favorite dudes. We’re proud to consider him part of the extended family and proud to have him call PUBLIC SCHOOL his home away from home.
